Anyone feel the earthquake around DL?

[Monkey Monkey]

OMG! It was a 7.2 today! Not even a 6.9! Do you realize that the last 7.0+ quake that we had (in Landers, California, back in 1992) triggered another big quake a few hours later in Big Bear? Yikes! Let's hope that doesn't happen. My nerves cannot take it!

Where did you see 7.2?

 

[Monkey Monkey]

I'm seeing 7.2 now on CNN. CRAZY!

 

[perlster]

7.2 means this was a really BIG one - the details here

change in depth to "10 km (6.2 miles) (poorly constrained)"

 

[macs4us]

We felt in north San Diego County - woke my kitties up. If you felt it, be sure to fill out the "Did You Feel It?" form at the USGS.

 

[perlster]

Supposedly, this is a picture of people leaving DL after the quake.

 

[MotoXPrincess99]

I felt it in Simi Valley. Very wavey like. Kinda felt like I was getting light headed or dizzy.

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

I didn't feel a thing up in Ventura County, but my kids in Camarillo did.

I'm in Oxnard and didn't feel a thing, but our dog was sure barking up a storm, we couldn't figure out why, now we know! BF's friends said they felt it here though.

Supposedly, this is a picture of people leaving DL after the quake.

Do they make you evacuate? Or are those people just freaking out and leaving?

 

[MotoXPrincess99]

I'm in Oxnard and didn't feel a thing, but our dog was sure barking up a storm, we couldn't figure out why, now we know! BF's friends said they felt it here though.





Do they make you evacuate? Or are those people just freaking out and leaving?

Out of the 12 people at my aunt's house in Simi just my aunt and I felt it. We were sitting at the table.

 

[disney777]

A newscaster had her 2 sons there with her mother. The smaller rides have started up again, her sons were just going on Small World. The bigger rides might take around 3 hrs to get going again.

For a lot of locals, DLR is a Sunday afternoon thing (if you have an AP). If the big rides are down for 3 hours, probably better just to leave and come back another day.

 

[Sherry E]

It's never a good thing when the CalTech people are telling you that this quake is large enough to cause some trigger quakes. Landers in 1992 - 7.3 - caused the Big Bear quake a few hours later and other quakes in the next few days. So now all of us in SoCal have to sit here, on edge, waiting to see what is to come! Another night of sleeping fully dressed for me!!

 

[Disney Dreams]

We are less than an hour from Disneyland. My in-laws are about 15 minutes from DLR. They said it was a rolling, wave-like quake. Same here. It seemed to last a long time.

I have been sick and have had occasional moments of dizziness due to my illness and drugs I'm on. I thought that my body/system was just having a dizzy spell or something weird. Then realized (thankfully, actually) that it was an earthquake.

On abc, they said they shut down all the rides at Disneyland, anyone else here that?

When there is an earthquake, Disneyland will shut all rides, evacuate them, safety check each and every ride, and open them back up one at a time as they are deemed safe.

When you are at a theme park and there is an earthquake, I would want nothing but the above to occur before getting back on a ride.

As for everyone on Main Street, I am guessing they probably evacuated the stores as standard procedure (which is what many businesses do after an earthquake). This would create a crowded Main Street. And I am sure there are many who are not familiar with earthquakes that decide they can't relax and have fun that probably decide to leave.

If you live in So. Cal. and experience a quake like today, you just check that everyone / everything is okay and then go back to whatever you were doing. It's just part of living here.

- Dreams

 

[perlster]

This may be the closest (to DLR) and most recent aftershock:

Magnitude 3.0
Date-Time

* Monday, April 05, 2010 at 00:25:22 UTC
* Sunday, April 04, 2010 at 05:25:22 PM at epicenter

Location 33.175°N, 116.414°W
Depth 12.2 km (7.6 miles)
Region SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Distances

* 9 km (6 miles) SSW (206°) from Borrego Springs, CA
* 20 km (12 miles) NE (54°) from Julian, CA
* 27 km (16 miles) W (278°) from Ocotillo Wells, CA
* 62 km (39 miles) E (85°) from Escondido, CA
* 63 km (39 miles) SSW (196°) from Indio, CA
* 81 km (50 miles) ENE (57°) from San Diego, CA

 

[Dopey's MIL]

Another night of sleeping fully dressed for me!!

I hear ya there! I'll be down in a couple of weeks and I may be tempted to do the same thing...for sure my shoes will be right at my bedside.

 

[Sherry E]

If you live in So. Cal. and experience a quake like today, you just check that everyone / everything is okay and then go back to whatever you were doing. It's just part of living here.

- Dreams

- Dreams

Not all of us in SoCal are that calm about it! We don't get 7.2-size quakes very often - or even anything in the 6.0 range - so this is not entirely typical. I am one of those SoCal residents who was traumatized by Northridge in 1994 and couldn't sleep for 2 weeks after it, and so whenever there is a quake now, I am always nervous and on edge when it starts and for hours afterward. And since Cal Tech is all but saying outright that we can expect some trigger quakes in other areas from today's event within the next few days (like Landers did in 1992), then nervous Nellies like myself will be on edge, trying to distract ourselves, for the next few days (and sleeping fully dressed!). I admire my fellow SoCal residents who can just kind of blow it off and easily go back to what they were doing! Of course, it doesn't help that my building will sway if someone slams a door!

What is very interesting - and I wonder if any of my fellow SoCal DIS-ers have been keeping up with this - is the unusual number of water main breaks that have happened over the last 1-1/2 years. It is literally like a wave of water main breaks all of a sudden, and the DWP had no concrete explanation for it yet. I am not a seismologist or a geologist, but, to me, I would assume there must be some kind of movement deep underground to be causing all those water main breaks to suddenly happen in a short period of time. When they seemed to keep happening, I was thinking, "Oh, there must be a big earthquake on the way." I just hoped that it wouldn't be here in California!!

 

[Sherry E]

I hear ya there! I'll be down in a couple of weeks and I may be tempted to do the same thing...for sure my shoes will be right at my bedside.

I have my shoes close by too! If only quakes happened in the daylight hours, when we didn't all feel so vulnerable, it would be nice. But because they sometimes happen in the dark of night or early morning hours, we are often caught off guard (as were many folks in the Northridge quake in 1994). So it is not a bad idea to at least sleep in something you wouldn't mind running outside in if you have to run outside and have the neighbors see you! You don't want to be caught in lingerie or something!!

 

[Dopey's MIL]

You don't want to be caught in lingerie or something!!

You mean in your birthday suit?

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

On Channel 4 NBC news right now they had a reporter in DLR and she said that they evacuated all the rides and checked them and they did not evacuate the entire park.

She said an elevator on Star Tours was stuck with guests inside, but the guess got out fine and a baby in the DLH was on a bed and when the EQ hit the baby bounced off the bed and on the floor, but the baby was okay.

 

[Mycutekitties]

I hope we don't get any big aftershocks. We leave in 12 hours!

 

[spacemermaid]

I hope we don't get any big aftershocks. We leave in 12 hours!

Yeah, me too! (Well, more like 15 hours )

 

[Sherry E]

You mean in your birthday suit?

That too! Always better to be in some sweats and a t-shirt than something skimpy (or nothing) if you have to go running out, screaming into the night!!